The world-famous Dame Olivia Newton-John AC DBE was a British-Australian singer, actress, and activist. She was a four-time Grammy Award winner whose music career included five number-one hits and another ten Top Ten.
Following the double-platinum 1978 album Hot, Newton-John returned to the screen for the ill-starred Xanadu. The creaky roller disco-themed plot incongruously cast the singer as a Greek muse, opposite 68-year-old Gene Kelly.
Greeted with dismal reviews, the picture was an instant flop. Its main beneficiary was Newton-John: the singles Magic, Xanadu with the Electric Light Orchestra) and Suddenly with Cliff Richard pushed the No. 5 soundtrack album to double-platinum status.
Newton-John’s film career never really recovered from Xanadu. A re-teaming with Travolta in the 1983 rom-com Two of a Kind also stiffed at the box office, and her leading roles were thereafter restricted to TV movies.
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The English-Australian singer, songwriter, actress, entrepreneur, dancer, and activist Olivia Newton-John, served as a guest judge in week 6 of season twenty-one of Dancing with the Stars.
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